ROSES 



invitation to a closer study, and wisely, since they are 

 more attractive from afar. 



How and after what design shall we fashion our gar- 

 den of roses ? Each must settle details for himself, but 

 to add a fresh glamour to its fascination, an old-world 

 charm to its newness, let the paths be of grass, or flagged 

 with brick or paved with stone, and crown the centre 

 with a sundial. Let the plan be formal. If the walks 

 are allowed to wind (and be sure they do not wriggle) 

 there is the chance that the beds may take all sorts of 

 fantastic shapes, then, like mists before the morning sun- 

 shine, garden magic vanishes. Above all things, let the 

 plan be simple and plainly fashioned, and leave the 

 embroidery to the roses. 



There will be, of course, plenty of poles and pillars, 

 a pergola and an arbour, and all need careful placing. 

 First and chiefly have an eye to the sunshine, that 

 the roses in the beds are not deprived of their full 

 share. The arbour should be placed where it commands 

 a view of the whole garden, if it be possible, or at 

 least the greater part of it, and let its back be 

 towards the sunshine, so will its face be in the shade. 

 Let the pergola show the way to the gathering of roses, 

 and the poles and pillars why, have them on the out- 

 skirts of the garden, so that they shelter but do not shade 

 the roses in the beds. If a sundial is not to mark the 

 centre, then let it be filled with a weeping rose, for of all 

 the many exquisite forms in which the rose may be 



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